We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spectacular and entertaining stunts, which can serve as an analogue to obsession with success and fame in contemporary society influenced by the mass media. We Did This and That is a reflection on global capitalism and society, which produces and possesses an excess of everything, as it can be seen in MTV series Jackass and Wildboyz.
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Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Going South (0:31:15)Produkcija: Sharjah Biennial 9, 2009Going South is a fictional documentary based on an actual Guinness World Record. It presents stages of a fake, fabricated story about how Nika Oblak & Primož Novak achieve a world record by pushing wheelbarrows from Ljubljana to Sharjah for 14.500 km in 3...

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Recommended by Curators Worldwide (0:08:26)Produkcija: European Commission Culture Programme for EMARE 2009, 2009A 3 by 5 meters advertising billboard promoting Nika Oblak & Primož Novak is placed deep in the woods in north Wales. The billboard is placed in a spot where it can hardly be seen, like a tree falling in a forest with no one around to hear it fall. Place...

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Shund (0:02:23)Produkcija: 2008Shund is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Pulp Fiction. The entire trailer was reconstructed in the studio, using the technique of chroma key and simple props, like toy cars and guns, cardboard, paper… Nika Oblak & P...

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Cab Driver (0:02:59)Produkcija: 2008Cab Driver is a frame by frame visually reconstructed original trailer of the movie Taxi Driver. The entire trailer was reconstructed in the studio, using the technique of chroma key and simple props, like toy cars and guns, cardboard, paper... Nika Oblak...

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:06)Produkcija: 2007We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spec...

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - We Did This and That (0:01:27)Produkcija: 2007We Did This and That is a series of 43 photographs and 13 videos, which show Nika Oblak & Primož Novak in reconstructing Guinness World Records. They chose absurd records, which are based on uncommon ideas. It is a strategy of gaining attention with spec...

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Explosion (0:00:16)Produkcija: 2003The video shows Primož Novak being blown up. It plays with idea that artists have to exert a tremendous amount of effort in order to be successful, and at the same time, it mocks the strategy of shocking the audience as a formula for quick success-a stra...

Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (0:19:22)Produkcija: 2003The video shows Nika Oblak & Primož Novak having picnic in a snowy landscape next to a highway. The postcard-like landscape is beautiful to look at, but it also isolates Oblak & Novak from the rest of the world.
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Nika Oblak & Primož Novak - Baby (0:04:13)Produkcija: 2003The video Baby shows a sexy blonde in a cheesy environment overflown by colorful balloons. She is posing in front of the camera and telling jokes about stupid policemen, which rather evoke jokes about stupid blondes. In the atmosphere filled by common ste...